Focus on Clean Energy: Max Baumgart joins CESL as a new Teaching Assistant

15 August 2017, by Internetredaktion

He has already explored European Energy and Digitalization Law from all kinds of perspectives: as a researcher, lecturer and legal advisor in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. In autumn 2017, Max Baumgart will assist the China-EU School of Law as a Teaching Assistant with his expertise in European Law.

The focus of his work is teaching tutorials in the “Master of European and International Law” programme. “My own international experience has instilled in me a curiosity and dedication to comparative law,” explains Max Baumgart, who currently is lecturing at the University of Cologne, Germany, conducting research at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Cologne and the University of Basel, Switzerland, in the field of European Energy and Digitalization Law.

During his legal studies at the University of Cologne and Humboldt University of Berlin, Max Baumgart already gained insights into practical legal work. He worked at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., USA, at a law firm in Brussels, Belgium, and at the German Federal Parliament in Berlin. He was most interested in the academic perspective on law and thus worked as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, USA, for several months in 2016. “I am happy to contribute my knowledge on the fascinating aspects of European Law to teaching students in Beijing and to contribute to international legal dialogue.” He already speaks a few words of Mandarin as well – in 2009, he spent two weeks in the city of Yangshuo in the Chinese Guanxi province while travelling through Asia for several months.